Bone Quotes

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Bury, Gnaw

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Dave Van Ronk

Time, Hurt, Someone

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers

Time, Down, Dog

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
Andrew Wyeth

Whole, Show, Story

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
Mike Tyson

Brain, Try, Nose

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
Rodney Dangerfield

Dog, Favorite, Arm

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson

Love, Great, Men

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London

Dog, Hungry, Charity

The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Golda Meir

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire

Life, Funny, Succeed

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison

Mind, Understand, Said

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Redd Foxx

Beauty, Deep, May

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
Meredith Monk

Honesty, Down, Keep

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West

Broken, Word, Forever

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Single, Before, After

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
Jay Leno

Down, Wine, Beer

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
Samuel Beckett

Pick, Graveyards, Personally

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.
Freddie Mercury

Money, Him, Show

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
Shia LaBeouf

Broken, Wind, Hits

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Mary Leakey

Gave, Kinds, Stone

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
John Jay Chapman

Love, Hate, Forget

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
Pete Townshend

Job, Young, Reason

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
Karen Duffy

Feeling, Eyes, Feet

I love every bone in their heads.
Eugene O'Neill

This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?
Jerry Lewis

Power, Pain, Two

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.
Christina Hendricks

Change, Thought, Lose

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.
Giovanni Guareschi

Him, Give, Last

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.
Margaret Cho

Beautiful, Give, Enough

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.
Julie Burchill

Spiritual, Body, Religious

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.
Michael Landon

Hard, Weary, Fought

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